The Image of St Francis

by Rosalind B. Brooke

An important new study of the way in which St Francis's image was recorded in literature, documents, architecture and art. St Francis was a man whose personality was deliberately stamped on his Order and Rosalind Brooke explores how the stories told by Francis's companions were at once brilliantly vivid portrayals of the man as well as guides to how the Franciscan way of life ought to be led. She also examines how after St Francis's death a great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521782910
• ISBN13: 9780521782913
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 3.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.7" x 9.8"